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- Printing (4400 bytes)
11: ...g the more sophisticated [[block printing]] dates from 868 AD (The ''[[Diamond Sutra]]'' of AD [[868]]...
13: ... developed the use of raised and movable type and from the start used oil based inks.
15: ...as developed in England by [[William Caxton]]; in 1539, the Italian Juan Pablos set up an imported press...
18: ...nhope]], [[George E. Clymer|George E. Clymer]], [[Friedrich Koenig|Koenig]] and others introduced new ...
46: * [[Francysk Skaryna]], first [[Belarus]]ian printer - Conventional Egyptian chronology (10774 bytes)
15: ...dynastic Egypt is from [http://xoomer.virgilio.it/francescoraf/ Late Predynastic and Early Dynastic Eg...
16: * The dates of Dynasties 1 to 10 are from Baines and Malek, ''Atlas of Ancient Egypt'' (...
17: * The dates of Dynasties 11 to 20 are from Kitchen, "The Basics of Egyptian Chronology in ...
18: * The dates of Dynasties 21 to 26 are from Kitchen, ''Third Intermediate Period in Egypt''...
20: (This information has been supplemented from ''The Oxford History of Ancient Egypt'', edited... - Arizona (24367 bytes)
88: ...y]] Spanish missionaries changed Father [[Eusebio Francisco Kino]]'s maps of the area; they renamed th...
96: ...]] the land below the [[Gila River]] was acquired from Mexico in the [[Gadsden Purchase]]. Arizona was...
98: ...of [[Brigham Young]], [[Mormon]]s went to Arizona from Utah in the mid to late [[1800s]] to the [[Phoe...
115: ...Representatives are [[Rick Renzi]] (R-1), [[Trent Franks]] (R-2), [[John Shadegg]] (R-3), [[Ed Pastor]...
134: ... is about 277 mile (446 km) long, ranges in width from 6 to 29 kilometers (4 to 18 miles) and attains ... - Tennessee (19096 bytes)
39: ...ed "Tanasqui" in [[1567]] while travelling inland from [[South Carolina]]. European settlers later enc...
48: ...9]], nearly 17,000 Cherokees were forced to march from Eastern Tennessee to [[Indian Territory]] west ...
50: ...ennessee was the last Confederate state to secede from the Union when it did so on [[June 8]], [[1861]...
52: Tennessee was the only state that seceded from the Union that did not have a military governor...
72: ...see Governors]], [[U.S. Congressional Delegations from Tennessee]]'' - Josquin Des Prez (6810 bytes)
2: ...gust 27]], [[1521]]) was a [[Dutch School (music)|Franco-Flemish]] composer of the [[Renaissance music...
6: ...ance]], probably in the service of [[Louis XII of France|Louis XII]] for most of the time, and he like...
8: ...ich is written on a ''[[cantus firmus]]'' derived from the musical letters in the Duke's name. While ...
10: ...e]] on the present-day border between Belgium and France, becoming provost of the cathedral there. Du...
14: ...riting in the [[1580s]], was still using examples from Josquin in his treatises on composition; and hi... - History of California (38344 bytes)
5: During that time, the area has gone from a [[Spain|Spanish]] outpost of interest primari...
13: ...S)|Sierra Nevada]] foothills collected [[acorn]]s from [[oak]] trees, ground them, and leached out the...
25: ====Francisco de Ulloa====
26: {{main|Francisco de Ulloa}}, also [[Island of California]]
28: ...ved by the renewal of those stories, Cortés sent Francisco de Ulloa out with three small vessels. He ... - Nicolaus Copernicus (26283 bytes)
1: [[image:copernicus.jpg|right|frame|Nicolaus Copernicus]]
8: ...cus' father. His brother Andrew became canon in [[Frombork]]. A sister, Barbara, became a [[Benedictin...
14: ...of Warmia and Copernicus was named a canon in the Frombork [[cathedral]], but he waited in Italy for t...
16: ...o complete his studies in Padua (with Guarico and Fracastoro) and in Ferrara (with Bianchini), where i...
18: ...e end of his studies, he came to live and work in Frombork. Some time before his return to [[Warmia]],... - Valley of the Kings (4430 bytes)
4: ...s located on the west bank of the [[Nile]] across from [[Thebes, Egypt|Thebes]] (modern [[Luxor]]). It...
6: The Valley was used from approximately [[1539 BC]] to [[1075 BC]], and contains some [[Burials ...
42: ... De Luca (photographs), ''Valley of the Kings'' (Friedman/Fairfax, 2001) – Spectacular photogra... - Hernando de Soto (explorer) (19418 bytes)
2: ...d'Avila (Pedrarias), [[Nicaragua]] and was with [[Francisco Pizarro]] in [[Peru]]. Later, de Soto led ...
5: ...e commander of an equestrian unit and went with [[Francisco Fernandez de Cordoba]] on his discovery an...
6: ... an ex-officer of Davila, had tried to break away from him. De Soto denunciated the treason and defeat...
11: ...arrested, DeSoto often visited him in jail, and a friendship between the two men emerged.
13: - Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo (4763 bytes)
10: ...venture (two or three ships), and stood to profit from any trade or treasure.
12: On [[June 27]], [[1542]], Cabrillo set out from Navidad (now [[Acapulco]]) in [[New Spain]]. On... - Tallahassee, Florida (7125 bytes)
40: ...as "old fields," or "old town." This likely stems from the [[Creek (people)|Creek]] (later called [[Se...
42: ...oto|Hernando de Soto]] spent the winter of 1538 - 1539 encamped at the Apalachee village of Anhaica, whi...
60: ...rom [[Race (U.S. Census)|other races]], and 1.67% from two or more races. 4.19% of the population are...
64: ..., 29.7% from 18 to 24, 27.9% from 25 to 44, 16.8% from 45 to 64, and 8.2% who are 65 years of age or o... - French language (40201 bytes)
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3: ...]], [[Rwanda]], [[Burundi]], [[Togo]], [[Central African Republic]], [[Republic of the Congo]], [[Gabo...
4: |region=[[Africa]], [[Europe]], [[Americas]]
15: ...nbsp; '''French'''<br></td></tr>
16: |nation=[[France]] and 24 other countries - Sikhism (31029 bytes)
2: ...u Granth Sahib]], the Sikh holy book. It departs from some of the social traditions and structure of ...
4: ...tain ritualistic practices that distracted people from focusing on [[God]]. He wanted to go beyond wha...
10: ...arance that it is a blend of insights originating from two very different faiths. Sikhism's coherence ...
12: ...d matter as a veil, so that only spiritual minds, free of desire, can penetrate it by the grace of the...
18: Political pressure from surrounding Muslim nations forced the Sikhs to ... - Pharaoh (5346 bytes)
6: ...tle but was used in letters to the monarch. It is frequently used by modern historians due to its use ...
15: ...ition which sailed from the [[Red Sea]] around [[Africa]] back to the mouth of the [[Nile]].
21: ...wore a double [[crown (headgear)|crown]], created from the Red Crown of [[Lower Egypt]] and the White ... - Estevanico the moor (3698 bytes)
2: ...ttle Stephen") of North African origins, possibly from [[Azemmour]], [[Morocco]]. He is mentioned in ...
5: ...can parents or was brought to Azemmour from west Africa by the trans-Saharan slave trade. He was conve...
8: ...ng so Estevanico became the first person born in Africa known to have set foot in what is now the [[co...
10: ...ause his medicine gourd was trimmed with feathers from an [[owl]], a bird that symbolized death to the... - Francisco Vásquez de Coronado (19760 bytes)
3: ...|thumb|right|Coronado Sets Out to the North, by [[Frederic Remington]], 1861-1909]]
5: '''Francisco Vázquez de Coronado y Luján''' (1510 &nd...
8: ...de la Frontera]] and [[Captain General]] of the [[Frontier]], [[Prefect]] of [[Granada]], who was at t...
11: ...ado inherited a large portion of a Mexican estate from Beatriz and had five children by her an they al...
14: ...e [[Narváez expedition]], on an expedition north from [[Compostela, Nayarit||Compostela]], in present... - Hernán Cortés (42809 bytes)
14: ...ern-day [[Peru]] (not to be confused with another Francisco Pizarro who joined Cortés to conquer the ...
16: ...by his [[biographer]], [[chaplain]], and friend [[Francisco López de Gómara]]. At the age of 14, Cor...
20: ...ld boy who had returned home only to find himself frustrated by life in his small provincial town.
26: ...eville, listening to the tales of those returning from the Indies, who told of discovery and conquest,...
31: ... estate of land and Indian slaves for his efforts from the leader of the expedition. - Hernando de Soto explorer (34946 bytes)
5: ...nquista|reconquest]] of the [[Iberian peninsula]] from Islamic forces. Spain and [[Portugal]] were fil...
14: ...ualpa's camp, Atahualpa's ransom, and the plunder from Cuzco, and had become very wealthy.
16: ...n Emperor|Charles]] awarded [[Diego de Almagro]], Francisco Pizarro's former business partner, the gov...
20: ...eraging 24 years of age, they eventually embarked from [[Havana]] on seven of the King's [[Galleon|shi...
27: ...rough [[Tennessee]], [[Kentucky]] and [[Indiana]] from [[Mabila]].
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